Last year on my Instagram, I started a series where I’d dive into subgenres of horror. This led me down several rabbit holes and quadrupled my own TBR. But how selfish of me would it be so gate keep so many wonderfully weird books?! If you never want to look at plants the same way again, here are some recommendations.
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Botanical Horror Books
- Don’t Let the Forest In by CG Drews
- What Moves the Dead by T. Kingfisher
- A Botanical Daughter by Noah Medlock
- Your Blood, My Bones by Kelly Andrew
- Bloom by Delilah S. Dawson
- Mexican Gothic by Silvia Moreno-Garcia
- Together We Rot by Skyla Arndt
- Eat the Ones You Love by Sarah Maria Griffin
- Tripping Arcadia by Kit Mayquist
- Predatory Natures by Amy Goldsmith
- Of Earthly Delights by Goldy Moldavsky
- Root Rot by Saskia Nislow
- Swallowed by Meg Smitherman
- Spider, Spider by L.C. Winter
- The Peculiar Garden of Harriet Hunt by Chelsea Iversen
- Bitterbloom by Teagan Olivia King
- These Wicked Gardens by L.B. Black
- Smothermoss by Alisa Alering
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